At some point I want to add to the "course" settings on here - especially to include a more official collection of profiles for things like marathons, IMs, etc.

In the meantime I thought I'd just start talking about them...

Here's the sting in the tail at the end of NYC marathon - http://www.runsaturday.com/Charts/tabId/64/activityId/54771/subView/Charts/Default.aspx - I've been told to save something for Central Park - and you can see why.

Here's the fairly flat Abingdon marathon - http://www.runsaturday.com/TabId/64/ActivityId/37/SubView/Charts/Default.aspx

I'll see if I can dig into my old Garmin Training Centre intallations to dig out a few more - I must have London, Leicester, Barcelona, Clarendon, Almere (tri), Austria (tri), Nice, and a few others...

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I can add in White Peak marathon. It has an great profile - gradual climb over the first 10 miles of about 8-900ft (old railway line so shallow but constant). It then goes down 1,000ft in the last 4 miles in 3 sections, 2 of which are extremely steep!

I will add the San Diego in late May. Possibly the Las Vegas in early December.

Boingo

Here's the Toronto Marathon

http://www.runsaturday.com/activity/tabId/64/activityId/32284/Default.aspx

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Yes it really is as simple as that!! The race is on two abandoned railway lines, they had to keep the routes relatively flat for the engines to manage. Hence the long slow incline at the start of the race.

The 2 steepest hills (down) at the end of the race, had pulling sheds at the top to pull engines up the hills. For railway geeks visit http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/incline/hop.htm

It's a great race, thoroughly recommend it.

We did Matt. Marshalls hold the gates open for the marathon :-)